CNN pundit Tia Mitchell mentioned the administration had “struggled to search out an individual of coloration who would conform to be on the listing.”

The White Home took umbrage after a visitor on CNN mentioned the Kennedy Heart had chosen to honor 81-year-old Gloria Gaynor merely as a result of she is an individual of coloration. On August 13, President Donald Trump unveiled this 12 months’s Kennedy Heart honorees, which embody Gaynor, recognized for hit songs “I Will Survive” and “Eye of the Tiger.” Tia Mitchell, the Atlanta Journal-Structure’s Washington bureau chief, informed CNN’s This Morning Weekend Saturday that Gaynor had been chosen due to range concerns.